- Test debut v England at Edgbaston in July 2009.
- Handed a national contract for the 2008-09 season after ten years in state cricket, and was subsequently selected as Brad Haddin's understudy for the 2009 Ashes tour.
- Drafted into the starting eleven for the third Test at Edgbaston after Haddin broke a finger in the warm-up.August 2009